text: * 2014	Outstanding Early Career Award recipient, American Heart Association, BCVS Council 
  * 2016	Honorary Citizen, Eastern Mani Municipality, Greece 
  * 2016	Visiting Professorship, UCLA Center for Systems Biomedicine 
  * 2017	Early Research Investigator Award, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University  
  * 2017	Elected Fellow (FAHA), American Heart Association  
  * 2019	Elected Full Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society
  * 2022 Visiting Professorship, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  * 2022 Top-Reviewer 2022 for JACC: Basic to Translational Science
  * 2023 Honorary Membership at the Biology Society of Cyprus
  * 2023 Adjunct Professorship, European University of Cyprus
  * 2023 Keynote Speaker, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
  * 2023 Keynote Speaker, Vascular and Heart Research Symposium, The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Virginia Tech at Roanoke 
  * 2024 Elected Fellow of the Graduate College of the University of Cincinnati